[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 20 (Monday, May 19, 1997)]
[Page 721]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13046--Further Amendment to Executive Order 12975, 
Extension of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission

May 16, 1997

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, and in order to extend the 
term of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, it is hereby ordered 
that section 7(b) of Executive Order 12975 further is amended to read, 
``NBAC shall terminate on October 3, 1999, unless extended by the 
President prior to that date.''
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
May 16, 1997.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:02 a.m., May 19, 
1997]

Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
May 20.